Great Bamboo Peak.
Shou Jing Hall.
"Master."
"We fell into a cave at the Ruthless Sea."
Ye Xuan lowered his voice, as if he were sharing a world-shaking secret.
"Blood Dripping Cave."
At those words,
Tian Buyi and Su Ru exchanged a glance, both seeing the shock in each other's eyes.
That was Old Man Black Heart's lair!
The legendary demonic cultivator who had shaken the world eight hundred years ago!
"We saw the Heavenly Tome inside."
Ye Xuan dropped a bombshell.
"The First Volume of the Heavenly Book."
Boom!
Tian Buyi shot to his feet, scraping his chair across the floor with a shrill screech.
"The Heavenly Tome?"
His breathing quickened.
It was a legendary text, the source of the Demonic Sect's cultivation techniques and the profound truth countless cultivators yearned to find.
"Xiao Fan was lucky, the silly kid."
"After reading the Heavenly Tome, it was like something clicked."
"His cultivation shot up, and nothing could stop it."
Ye Xuan spread his hands.
Tian Buyi paced back and forth across the hall, his round body radiating the imposing might of a thousand troops.
If it was the Heavenly Tome...
Then Zhang Xiaofan's astonishing progress made sense.
It was a wondrous text containing the truths of heaven and earth!
Suddenly,
Tian Buyi stopped and whipped around to look at Ye Xuan.
His gaze was sharp as a blade.
"Was the Heavenly Tome also why your cultivation regressed?"
"Sort of, but not exactly."
Ye Xuan dropped his playful expression and grew a little more serious.
"After reading the Heavenly Tome, I had some insights."
"I feel like the Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao is... too diffuse."
"Too diffuse?"
Tian Buyi's eyes widened, as if he had heard something blasphemous.
The Qingyun Sect had been established two thousand years ago.
The